Family Feud

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NEW DELHI: The BJP may be struggling to get its act together in the face of severe intra-party wranglings. Continuing its gameplan to drive a wedge between BJP president LK Advani and his party colleagues, the VHP today decided to come to the aid of former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti. Staking out leaders since it's feeling left out in the current scheme of things in the BJP, the VHP praised on the mercurial BJP leader, who's currently on the warpath with the party leader for its failure to re-instate her as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh or accommodate her in the central team of office-bearers.

MUMBAI: Kokilaben Ambani, widow of the founder of the Reliance empire, has emerged as the likely arbiter in the battle between her two sons, with the elder son Mukesh leaving "all settlement issues" to her, a path his brother Anil had also favoured a few days ago. In an important turn in the battle for the control of the Rs 90,000-crore group, founded more than a quarter century ago by Dhirubhai Ambani, a spokesperson for Mukesh said on...

MUMBAI: In what could mark the end of a long drawn-out tussle, the Bajaj family faction, comprising Bajaj Auto CMD Rahul Bajaj and his cousins, Shekhar, Madhur and Niraj, are meeting on Thursday with their lawyers, to discuss the details of a final settlement. The meeting, sources say, comes in the wake of a recent letter from Rahul Bajaj's brother, Shishir Bajaj — who wants to break away from the group — seeking an early settlement. Family observers say that Shishir's move is significant, as after the arbitration award by family friend Dhirajlal S Mehta earlier this year, he had come up with a fresh set of demands involving transfer of the 10% stake in Bajaj Hindustan held by group flagship Bajaj Auto and joint venture firm Maharashtra Scooters.

NEW DELHI: With the Battle Royale between the Ambani brothers finally over and the Reliance business split, this could turn out to be the summer of succession planning studies in family owned businesses for Indian B-school students. While it's too early yet to predict a scramble for syllabus on splitting family businesses, management gurus do feel that the question of succession planning within family-owned businesses in India is definitely top of the mind on management campuses, both for students and faculty members.

MUMBAI: Family feuds may shape the electoral outcome in Mumbai North Central. Till now the Congress' bastion, the constituency now is witnessing a curious battle among siblings, Sanjay Dutt versus Priya Dutt and Raj versus Uddhav Thackeray. That the Congress is losing its base here was evident in the past Lok Sabha elections. The presence of the MNS then helped Priya Dutt defeat the BJP's Mahesh Jethmalani. Sitting MP Priya polled 3,19,352 votes against Jethmalani's 1,44,797.

NEW DELHI: CPI(M) today said the tussle between Trinamool Congress and Congress in West Bengal was "a family feud" and accused Mamata Banerjee's party of trying to "have the cake and eat it too". "It is a family feud. But the pitch has gone so shrill that it has become difficult for even the neighbours to live," senior CPI(M) leader Surjya Kanta Mishra told reporters on the sidelines of CPI(M) Central Committee meeting here. He said Trinamool Congress was earlier launching attacks only on CPI(M)

The fight over banker Dev Ahuja's contested will just got bloodier, and it has now dragged three of the most prestigious construction projects in south Mumbai down in the dirt. On June 28, the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) served show-cause notices to three super-luxury residential projects of Orbit Corporation on Napeansea Road, pointing out massive FSI violations and under-representation of construction costs to circumvent CRZ rules.

NEW DELHI: The Bajaj family feud may be heading for a rapprochement before the fisc runs out, with the meetings between solicitors representing the two sides "going off well". According to sources close to the family, "in a few more meetings" the two solicitors ? Prakash Mehta of Malvi Ranchhodas & Co representing Rahul, Sekhar, Madhur and Niraj Bajaj; Rashmikant of Federal & Rashmikant representing Shishir Bajaj ? "are likely to come up with the 'terms of agreement' for the 'dispute' to be referred to the two mediators".

NEW DELHI: DELHI chief minister, Sheila Dikshit, today blamed the feud in the Ambani family for the capital's power crisis and non-cooperative attitude of neighbouring states for the water problem in the city. Dikshit, whose government has been under attack over power problems, said Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, had asked her to correct the situation. "The power situation in Delhi has improved enormously after privatisation three years ago, but not to the satisfaction of the consumers," she told a 'Meet the Press' programme here during which she spoke on several other issues like transport, statehood demand, problem of multiplicity of authority, the capital's security problem.

MUMBAI: Asking the Mafatlal family to try their best to put an end to their disputes, the Bombay High Court on Thursday appointed a senior lawyer as a mediator between industrialist Atulya Mafatlal and his estranged wife Sheetal. A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and A M Thipsay were hearing two petitions - one filed by Atulya's daughter Marushka seeking the FIR lodged by Sheetal against her for harassment to be quashed and another filed by a private investments company owned by Atulya seeking CID inquiry against Sheetal for theft of a painting worth Rs two crore.